when the piano isn't played

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Clyde -

My thinking would be simply that parts designed to be moving parts
benefit from moving every so often to help prevent an "arthritic" piano
action.  I can't really speak to the issue of soundboards benefitting
from resonating.  I hear that about violins, but am not clear as to the
merits of that argument.

What does seem to be true, though, is that the only pianos I have seen
that had an infestation of mice, or anything else, for that matter, were
pianos that were not being played.  Who would want to live inside a piano
that is being played?

Mark Potter
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On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 06:44:49 -0500 Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
writes:
> Friends,
> 
> Several times recently when I called clients about scheduling the
> tuning, they responded that it's no longer being played.  Then they 
> say
> something like, "I heard it's bad for the piano to not be played.  
> Is
> that true?"
> 
> Well, I've heard that, too, but I really don't know if it's true, or 
> why
> it would be.  Can someone answer the question?  Thanks.
> 
> Clyde Hollinger
>